Morning journal and courier., 1887-12-16
ENDS HIS LIFE.
The Suicide Of E. M. Cans, the State
 street Halter, Yesterday.


 Street Halter, Yesterday
 Shortly before 12 o'clock yesterday fore- noon Emanuel M Cans, the halter at No.S69 State street, committed suicide by shooting himself with revolver. The deed was the result of despondency on account of financial troubles.
 The deceased was alone in his sore when he committed the deed. When found he was sitting in a chair in the rear of the store with a hole in the right temple showing where the shot had taken effect.
 About il o'clock he asked man who was in the store to stay few moments, as he wanted to go away. The man consented to stay and MT. Cans immediately went to George Page's lock manufactory at 464 State street and bought 8 revolver. He told MT. Page that he wanted it to shoot rats with. The revolver and cartridges cost him S1 15 and MT. Cans told him to send boy to his store and he would pay him.
 Mir. Cans appeared to all who saw him to be as well as usual.
 About an hour after he bought the pistol he was dead. It was about 11:3O when Joseph Kaiser, who keeps clothing store next door, dropped into the store, as he | did quite often. What was his surprise to see Mr. Cans leaning back in a chair in the rear part of the store. He knew something ! had happened and at once made all possible | haste to Leopold Besser's clothing store at | 425 State street, and told MT. Besser what he ! had seen. The two at once returned to the ! store and there they found that Mir. Clans Y was dead, although his body was still warm. Blood was flowing from wound in the head. ! MT. Besser sent for Dr. Bellosa and Coroner | Mix When they arrived they found that ! two shots had been fired, the first one only | taking effect. Nobody heard the shots, and l it is quite probable that he waited until a | train was passing in the rear of the store SC | that the noise of the shots would be drowned
 MT. Cans was forty-four years old. Born I at Neustaetel, in Austria, he came to this country when twelve years of age. He Was well connected. He has one brother, Wno Is | still living in Austria, being an eminent | physician there. He had been resident oi ! New Haven for the past thirty years. He was | married to Carrie Veil, daughter of Isaac F. | Veil His wife died five years ago, leaving two children, Bertha, aged sixteen, and Lean, ! who is nine years old.
 | The closest friend that the deceased had l was L. Besser of State street, who had known him for twenty five years. He had of late | taken good deal of care of the children Mr. Besser has for long time lent MT. Cans money to help him out. Only last Monday he gave him over $50. Of late Cans had ! been very Respondent, in fact ever since hii ' W110 Q16Q. buSlu6SS uhu 1dltSu O1l3 AAO AS | could not meet his debts. He was not a mar I who could battle with this world. MT. Bes ser had let him have hundreds of dollars
 which he never expects to get back. Onl1 I yesterday morning he was engaged in trying ! to get a loan of $500 on some of his owl ! property from Hoadley B. Ives, and he wa ! successful, but Mir. Cans was ignorant of it \ MT. Besser had let him have so much that h ! himself had begun to feel the pressure. | The only relation the deceased had in thi I country was L. Cans, uncle, of the frn | of Cans & Klein, wholesale clothiers of Nez | York. This uncle was g rich man, and tn firm had, it is said, a good solid financia ! standing in Bradstreet's. L. Cans is als 1 vice president of the Helena (Montans ! National bank. The deceased had write ! to him asking for aid to help him out of hi
 difficulty, but the uncle fatly refused. Thi ! probably had much to do with MT. Gam
 committing suicide.
 ! The deceased was a member of HoIe lodge Moses Mendelssohn lodge, the Germs
 nia lodge and the Sassacus eneampment. E
 belonged to the William street synagogue. Coroner Mix says that an inquest is nc | necessary. The funeral will be held Sunda ! afternoon at ? o'clock from his late residence 596 Grand avenue, which is the residence
 his father-in-law, Isaac P. Well. The inte ! ment will take place in the Hamden ceme ! tery owned by the Benai Scholom congregi
 tion. Mir. Besser says that the two litIl
 children who have been left orphans will nt I want for father or mother as long as he
 able to do anything.